Jerusalem Day 18 - September 13th 2009

Today was full of lectures and speakers. We started off with Dr. Waddell giving us a lecture on the history of Israel and Judah. We learned who some of the more important kings were and things such as the temple being destroyed twice. Next we had a guest lecturer from Mt. Carmel come. He was very interesting and extremely knowledgeable. He is originally from Japan, then America, then Israel. He helped us to better understand how he is trying to help Arabic people and Jewish people worship together. He pastors a church by Mt. Carmel that is multi ethnic. There are very few of those churches in Israel so it was interesting to hear about. He also gave us some review on some of the stuff we learned last week such as how Jesus proclaimed his Messiahship in Nazareth. After the lecture we were allowed to go eat lunch before we left for our afternoon in the Old City. We went back to a few of the places we already had been at in the past weeks. We learned more of the history of the Old City as well. The day ended early because we had seen most of the sights already. It was still an interesting day with some new information to add to our lists.